Description

SE 19 SE
3/15

CONSTABLE BURTON
HUNTON ROAD
(north side)
Cragg Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Possibly C14, with later alterations. Sandstone rubble with
ashlar dressings, artificial stone slate roof. 2 storeys with C17 single-
storey outshut raised in C20 to 2 storeys with flat roof; 3 first-floor
windows, the second and third in slightly-projecting bays. Quoins. In
second bay, part-glazed door on ground floor. 2-light casement windows
below deep lintels. On ground floor, part of single-light window surround
to left of first window; small blocked pointed-arched single-light window to
right of second bay, and small blocked ogee-arched single-light window to
right of third bay. On first floor, to right of first window, blocked
window of 2 pointed-arched lights under a single lintel. Ashlar coping to
right. End stacks. Rear: chamfered quoined doorway to right; 2 blocked
single-light chamfered windows on ground floor. Right return: 2 blocked C19
openings. Interior: front wall very thick, especially where bays project.
Inner partitions said to have been of woven laths, clay and cobbles, without
lime mortar; beams said to be adzed with overlapping joists, also 2 adjacent
round archways of different widths in wall between house and outshut on
ground floor to left, and roof of black oak timbers.

Listing NGR: SE1689991459

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26473998

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